eNom and Go Daddy customers can verify ownership from web based interface.
Google has just introduced a speedier way to verify your domain ownership for use with certain Google tools.
You have to verify that you own a particular domain name in order to use some Google services with the domain, e.g. seeing search queries for your web site in Webmaster Tools. Until now the process has been kind of difficult for people without technical skills.
The new service allows eNom and Go Daddy customers to complete a simple sign-on process to verify to Google that they own a particular domain. To verify a domain, you basically provide your registrar login credentials within an interface and grant it permission to verify your ownership.
Google plans to extend the feature to BlueHost customers soon.
FX says
So you grant Google access to your registrar accnt ?
Holy crap, thats scary ..
help says
I don’t think Google gets the p/w. I think there is some kind of handshake that sys the login suceeded w/o sending the credentials. Paypal now has the same thing with some banks and accounts can be verified immedietly.
Andrew Allemann says
@ help is correct. It’s just something like when you login to a site using your Facebook account. In this case the registrar passes back confirmation that it’s your domain.